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All the examples of sentences with “Amazônia” use Portuguese from Portugal, not from Brazil. Considering that most of the people who’d possibly use this word in Portuguese would do so in a Brazilian context, the examples should be in Brazilian Portuguese.
Different syntax, orthography etc. “Amazônia” itself is a word written with “ô” (“closed” accent) in Brazil and “ó” (open accent) in Portugal…

As a Dutch person, I was looking if there was a proper English phrase to wish for someone to enjoy their meal. Aside from coming up with “Bon apétit”, I spotted a phrase in the similar (related?) translations which was “Niet schijten war je eet”, translating to the (kind of vulgar) phrase “Don’t sh-t where you eat”. While the translation’s correct, there’s a typo in the Dutch phrase; the word “war” should be “waar” (meaning “where”).
Figured I’d share this. Cheers!

Firstly, Keep the sentences SIMPLE.
It gets to the point faster and in a clearer fashion. as here, translation is important, not complex tenses of verbs and clauses etc.. hence problems in other senctences translated by people for whom English is not their first language.

Some sentences were sentence fragments and so didn’t show proper English and therefore could not show a good translations or good examples for either language.

Another sendtence mentioned about Mr. Alhern at the European Summit, in English, but no mention of him was made at all in the Swedish translation, so I don’t know if the sentences were meant to be related or not.

Also, it seemed in one example that ‘day to day’ in English is not Monday to Saturday’ in Swedish. Surely ‘day-to-day ‘would be something like ‘dag (to) dag in Swedish which I do not know, which is not as specific as Monday to Saturday (where is Sunday?); so this is a rough and misleading translation unless that is all that can be done in Swedish, which I doubt.

And this is also what the sentences at http://en.bab.la/dictionary/polish-english/bede-tam seem to confirm.
I’d say that “Tam będę.” as a translation of “I will be there” is only acceptable if you really want to emphasize that you will be THERE and not anywhere else.

I really like the amount of sentences that I can use as reference in my English classes.However I would like to know if all English sentences are correct therefore from English sources or Its mixed and also can come from another languages sources then translated for English?
Thanks

@Jan Glorieux: Thank you for your remark, we will delete the sentence!

@Jan Tångring: Thank you for your nice words and your feedback! We already allow users to add their own translations (we have encouraged that, in fact, since the founding of the website) which we later verify for correctness.

@Asia: you should make it immediate – you should put an input field for “suggested translation” next to the “Sorry, no exact translations found”. I don’t want to go some place else to start a discussion, I want to quickly make a contribution and then leave. You could get much more feedback that way.